Compliant actuator designs: Review of actuators with passive adjustable compliance/controllable stiffness for robotic applications

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 81-94

  Ham, Van Ronald ^a   Sugar, Thomas G ^b   Vanderborght, Bram ^a   Hollander, Kevin W ^a   Lefeber, Dirk ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuators; Adjustable compliance actuators; Controllable stiffness actuators; Force; Joints; Legged locomotion; Springs; Torque

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE COMPLIANCE ACTUATORS; CONTROLLABLE STIFFNESS ACTUATORS; FORCE; JOINTS; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; SPRINGS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; RESONANCE; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STIFFNESS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 70349449300     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2009.933629     Document Type: Article

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